# The Voice of Sikkim · `Let me live in a third country instead of being humiliated as foreigner` : SLP President DN Nepal. ---------------------------------------------------- LETTER TO HOME MINISTER FROM SLP ---------------------------------------------------- To Honorable Home Minister of India Government of India New Delhi Regarding: Status of Sikkimese Nepalese Citizens Respected Sir, This is to inform you that a group of seven (7) individuals in the name and banner of Old Settlers of Sikkim has filed a writ in the Honourable Supreme Court of India. The said writ is registered as 59 of 2012 (Civil). In the said petition the, petitioner has claimed that the four hundreds families including them are the true and real Indian and the rest of the eighty percent of Sikkimese citizens of Nepalese origin are of foreign origin. (It may be noted that majority of those petitioners are directly or indirectly involved in criminal act of money laundering, and their names published in White Paper on Direct Tax Law laid down in the State Assembly by the Government of Sikkim). The concern and the gravity of matter is that the writ has already been accepted by the Honourable Supreme Court and ready for hearing. Consequent upon this, the Honourable Court has also advised the aggrieved parties not to oppose it publicly. Because of the cowardly act of these seven individuals, the ever peaceful State of Sikkim is in the verge of communal rift and tension. It has already reached the stage of volcanic proportion which can errupt anytime which can have wider and greater ramification in the strategic State of Sikkim. Therefore the following points need to be critically analysed and reviewed. 1. This is simply not a law and order problem and problem of ethnicity. If the people who voted an Independent sovereign Kingdom of Sikkim were of foreign origin then the merger of Sikkim with India is illegal in itself. (Please note that among the fifteen signatories of the Tripartite Agreement of 8th May, 1973, eleven (11) of them belonged to the community whose nationality are being questioned). 2. Those individuals involved in small time business have not dared to act with such audacity and brazenness at their own, but we are of deep belief that there is some sinister force backing them. 3. It is necessary to mention here that when Sikkim was merged it was defined under article 371(F) of Indian Constitution. Under this provision all Indian of Sikkimese origin as defined were exempted from Direct Central Taxes. 4. These individuals who are claiming to be real and patriotic Indian were among the bunch who tried to loot India by exploiting this provision of Income Tax exemption meant for State of Sikkim through anti national activities of money laundering. 5. Today they have been advised by the anti national people who unfortunately have been the elected representatives of Sikkim in connivance and tacit support of Government of India. These individuals are supported and advised by those leaders on power for whom nation is a market and the government is a medium to exploit it. 6. It is unfortunate from the part of India that it has always supported wrong people to reach in power. 7. At present the people who are in power in Sikkim are simply bunch of crooks and stooges for whom the state is a business enterprise to loot and nation a big market. 8. These people view China as big market than India who compelled the Indian Government to open strategic location of Nathula Valley for monetary gain only. 9. The same leadership had advised these individuals to approach Honourable Supreme Court of India to create a situation of hate and mistrust. In view of the above development and the onslaught of such humiliation has left us in great dismay leaving us no further ground to tolerate such disgrace time and again. Though we are a forced Indian thrust upon, we and our fellow brethren tried to imbibe and adhere it to the best of our sincerity and earnest till date before being woken up by brazen and audacious attack on our bonafide by those involved in serious economic offences. Our forefather merged our mother country in India to be a part of greatest democracy of the world as is often claimed only to be tagged and termed foreigners times and again. In a span of nearly four decades of merger [annexation] of Sikkim, the respective government in the helm of power in this part of India have always tried to suppress the voice of concern under the boot. to further elucidate, I have been the victim of your democracy where I have been tortured, denied of my social, economic and political rights regarding which I have been writing you in several occasions. Today when a bunch of economic offenders pointed out to me as a foreigner and asked the Supreme Court of India to strike down all the provisions carved out for Sikkimese people in the Indian Constitution and your Supreme Court directed not to tender opposition against this left me with no option, but to ask you to relieve me from such humiliation of being true Sikkimese patriotic Indian. I would no longer like to live with the tag of foreigner in India. If government of India is also of the same opinion let me be relieved and given the opportunity to approach the third country. Above all, if the definition of Indian Patriotism is corruption, anti national activities, illegal money laundering, involvement in anti-national activity and to spit the venom against the people who voted their country to you and who send their sons and daughters in the border to fight for the Country. And if these criminals are true and patriotic Indians I simply don not want to live with them in the same society and country. So let me be given the permission to approach the third country for my honorable living. Thanking you Sincerely yours Duk N. Nepal Convenor Sikkim Liberation party Sikkim
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:48:35 +0000
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